Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture

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Chiara Giuliani (University College Cork, Ireland) Kate Hodgson (University College Cork, Ireland)

Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture

Chiara Giuliani (University College Cork, Ireland), Kate Hodgson (University College Cork, Ireland)

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Routledge
27 May 2024

General & world history; Social & cultural history; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

With a focus on the object and where it is situated, in time (memory) and space (mobility), Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture embodies a multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approach.

The chapters track the movement of the objects and their owner(s), within and between continents, countries, cities, and families. Objects have always been considered with an eye to their worth – economic, aesthetic, and/or functional. If that worth is diminished, their meaning and value disappear, they are just things. Yet things can still fulfil functions in our daily lives; they hold symbolic potential, from personal memory triggers, to focal points of public ritual and religion; from collectors’ obsession, to symbols of loss, displacement, and violence. By bringing into dialogue the work of specialists in ethnology, art history, architecture, and design; literature, languages, cultures, and heritage studies, this volume considers how displaced memory – the memory of refugees, migrants, and their descendants; of those who have moved from the countryside to the city; of those who have faced personal upheaval and profound social change; those who have been forced into exile or experienced major personal or collective loss – can become embodied in material culture.

This book is important reading to those interested in cultural and social history and cultural studies.

Edited by: Chiara Giuliani (University College Cork Ireland), Kate Hodgson (University College Cork, Ireland)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9780367631925
ISBN 10: 036763192X
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Chiara Giuliani is a lecturer in Italian at University College Cork (Ireland). Kate Hodgson is a lecturer in French at University College Cork (Ireland).